Watch Madonna Pay Tribute to David Bowie by Performing “Rebel Rebel” Live in Concert

As the past few days of tributes and salutes have made clear, David Bowie’s sphere of influence was as massive as they come. Some artists imitated Bowie’s style, some took cues directly from the music, and some simply drew inspiration from his sense of adventure. And though few of Bowie’s admirers forged careers as enduring, unpredictable, and prominent as his, one notable exception is Madonna. Like Bowie, she’s spent decades as one of pop music’s most restless and forward-thinking artists, creating rich personae only to shed them before they grow stale. And like Bowie, Madonna has consistently found ways to inject her own inimitable sensibility into one rising genre after another.